History of Art & Design Styles: c 1400 to c 1600

No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works o...

Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was the greatest artist of the Northern European Renaissance. Dürer's virtuoso woodcuts and engravings ensured his fame t...

We may never know what the Mona Lisa is really smiling about, but we do know that there's much more to the masterpieces of Renaissance art than the...

This book explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with p...

A history of the relationship between art and geometry in the early modern period.In The Polyhedrists, Noam Andrews unfolds a history of the relati...

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Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis o...

Through historical coincidence that almost takes on a mythical character, 'Michelangelo' was the given name not only of the Florentine sculptor, bu...

The Wellby Bequest, received by the Ashmolean Museum in 2013, consists of some 500 precious and exotic objects, mainly from Continental Europe, fro...

Raphael arrived in Rome in 1508 and remained there until his death in 1520, working as painter and architect for popes Julius II and Leo X and for ...

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture (GEMAA) offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from Medieval W...

First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs in the court of Richard II. Bohemian culture exercised an importan...

The first English translation of Erwin Panofsky's long-lost work on MichelangeloIn 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was ...

This volume is dedicated to Taddeo di Bartolo (c. 1362-1422), painter of Sienese origin who, as the travelling master he was, spent a good part o...

An expert shows how Jesus is revealed in great paintings, in ways more subtle than words. Kiely walks through important scenes of the Gospels, paus...

Pioneering investigation of the popular double tomb effigies in the Middle Ages. 2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarsh...

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European...

Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of b...

Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, this incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes th...

Made in gold and enamel and decorated with precious stones, the Holy Thorn Reliquary depicts the salvation of mankind through the sacrifice of Chri...

An accessible survey on a genius artist, published to accompany the 500th anniversary of Bosch's death Hieronymus Bosch (c. 14501516) lived and wor...